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I've got a Mac!
Calum:
--- Quote from: Laukev7 ---You could try installing NetBSD on it.
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from the link:
--- Quote ---and most desktop systems can boot to a usable state.
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hmm, i don't want to fuck it all up though, i have no way of installing its existing software back onto it if i want to you see.
that would be very cool however.
i wonder if it could have X and all that on it, or if i could get it to connect to my router with netBSD (probably, though i have no idea how to do this in macOS 7.5)
by the way, if it is running macOS 7.5, then does this mean that even though it has a b/w screen, it is thinking in colour?
Calum:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Shame OpenOffice is far too bload to run on such an old machine, have you tried Abi Word?
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nope, i have so far only looked in the control panels and tried to figure out the intricacies of saving as rtf in such an old version of word (there are a lot of conversion dialogs to work through). i didn't know abiword would install on a MacOS, and i have no idea how i would get it onto the machine considering the lack of any CD drives and the array of mystery ports that bear no resemblance to anything i know about.
piratePenguin:
Ubuntu 6.06.
Of course I'm messing. I tried to install it on a neighbours almost-10-year-old PC and it wouldn't boot - shitty CD ROM drive I think.
I think this is the computer that my physics teacher has in the lab for, I would call it, "scientific inspection". We should liberate that mac.
Actually it might not be, the one in the lab takes only FLOPPY floppy disks.
EDIT: I've never seen the mac in school powered on... Maybe he hurt it?????
WMD:
--- Quote from: Calum ---by the way, if it is running macOS 7.5, then does this mean that even though it has a b/w screen, it is thinking in colour?
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The default video chipset in the b/w Macs only displays 2-bit: black and white. The only way to get otherwise is another video card, which IIRC the Classic II doesn't have a slot for.
H_TeXMeX_H:
For old computers try DSL and feather ... or if you don't like them or can't use them (cuz it's a Mac) just use the very light-weight programs they use ... that's what I do, but mostly for speed, not that I can't run GNOME instead of fluxbox, but I prefer speed.
For example you can try FLWriter (got it from DSL app specs), not sure how to get it to work.
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